The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund Thursday filed a lawsuit against the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on behalf of several families who say that ICE agents...

The South African Supreme Court of Appeal heard arguments Friday in the corruption case against former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma . The South African Prosecuting Authority (NPA) alleges that Zuma...

The Supreme Court of Chile ruled Friday that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori should be extradited to Peru to face human rights charges. The much anticipated decision was expected earlier...

Charges and provisional detention order against Nuon Chea, Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia, September 21, 2007. Read the full text of the charges and order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Former Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea has disputed charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to his detention order , published Friday by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website;...

Bangladesh suspended publication of weekly satire magazine Alpin Friday after hundreds of Bangladeshi Muslims protested the publication of a cartoon depicting a young boy and his "Muhammad cat," saying the cartoon ridiculed the Muslim prophet Muhammad....

German police have arrested Augustin Ngirabatware, a former Rwandan minister suspected of genocide in the 1994 Rwanda conflict between Hutus and Tutsis, German officials announced Thursday. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) accuses Ngirabatware...

International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is pushing world leaders to place the prosecution of war crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan on top of the agenda at a UN...

Federal prosecutors on Thursday handed down an indictment accusing Milberg Weiss name partner Melvyn Weiss of conspiracy, racketeering, obstruction of justice and making false statements. The indictment stems from a long-running US Attorney investigation into allegations that...

The Zimbabwean Parliament unanimously passed amendments to the Zimbabwean constitution Thursday that essentially give President Robert Mugabe the authority to appoint his successor. Both Mugabe's ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front...